Cultural Geography and Geography in the Media.
For students and teachers of Geography.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Are you 'feeling a little hoarse' ?

An interesting cultural story has been in the news in the UK today.

Horsemeat has been discovered in burgers on sale in a range of supermarkets. There has been a lot of debate about this, even though some meat in burgers is probably preferable to some of the other things that they put in there...Margaret Visser's work on the cultural importance of food is relevant here of course.

Does it matter if we eat horse ?
Was the presence of pork worse perhaps, given the connection with some religious beliefs ?
Is horse meat used elsewhere ?

Predictably perhaps, social media was full of humorous comments relating to 'quarter pandas', 'my Lidl pony', picture of horses as an 'unexpected item in the bagging area', checking the burgers 'and they're off...' etc.

What is this blog about ?

Cultural Geography featured on the now-ex Pilot GCSE Geography Specification - that was my introduction to this area of geography. This blog started out featuring my findings, resources and images as I produced resources when teaching this unit for the first time. Some readers may disagree with what I call 'cultural geography' but I'm still relatively new to all this...

Some of the early content stems from ideas by Dr. Phil Wood , Senior Lecturer in Geographical Education at the University of Leicester.

The blog has now morphed into a general place to blog about geography and popular culture, as well as social science, mapping and a range of other cultural items of interest.